Raytheon Co., Tewksbury, Massachusetts, is awarded a $46,336,537 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the Agnostic Signal Processing for Increased Radar Efficiency (ASPIRE). This contract provides for new radar signal generation capabilities and improved radar signal processing backend designs for Navy radar systems. The effort will conduct studies on approaches for more flexible digital beamforming, advanced signal processing, new signal synthesizer architectures, and smaller digital receiver-exciter (DREX) designs to improve radar system size, weight and power requirements. Work will be performed in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, and is expected to be completed by April 24, 2025. The maximum dollar value, including a 36-month base period, one 14-month option period, two 24-month option periods, one 17-month option period, one 20-month option period, and one 21-month option period that will run concurrently with the base, is $46,336,537. Fiscal 2022 research, development, test and evaluation (Navy) funds in the amount of $2,147,400 are obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured under the N00014-21-S-B001, fiscal 2021 Office of Naval Research long range broad agency announcement (BAA) for Navy and Marine Corps science and technology. Since proposals are received throughout the year under the long range BAA, the number of proposals received in response to the solicitation is unknown. The Office of Naval Research, Arlington, Virginia, is the contracting activity (N00014-22-C-1016).
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